International Labor Film & Video Festival Preparing for Fifth Round
The Fifth Labor Film Festival continues the tradition of screening movies about labor struggles. The films and videos will be shown in cinemas of Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir in May next year. Directors who want to participate can prepare their application till 12 February 2010.
The non-competitive film festival shows videos and movies about the lives and struggle of working class people in Turkey and all around the world. The films and videos focus on the struggle of workers, of the unemployed, students, farmers and women and also on labor uprisings all over the world. Additionally, the international festival aims to encourage the making of films about workers, labor and the poor.
The Labor Film Festival is organized in coorperation with the country's labor unions. The films are shown free of charge.
Directors who are interested in screening their documentary or fictional work can submit their application until 12 February next year.
The festival will start simultaneously in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir on 1 May 2010 and will last for a full week till 7 May.
As it has been done in the previous 3 years in the course of the festival, cinema fans and workers are going to meet in cities all around Turkey such as Adana, Trabzon, Bursa and Eskişehir to name just a few.
Application forms can be downloaded on the website festival.sendika.org and should be sent to festival@sendika.org, the deadline for submitting a film is 19 March 2010. (BÇ/VK)
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